Two lectures (1423, where it comes with Tennyson's The Plan, and 1978), and it is the largest claim Neville makes about what the descent is for. We are the gods who came down, and we are not less than we were before but greater for having come down, because we have redeemed this section of creation which is man. Man was only the first. But we can't leave the other parts unredeemed - so we will redeem everything in our world, so that in the end there is nothing but God, but one thing at a time. He is explicit that this means more descents and names them in order: will we again come down into another element called the animal world, for we are animal too; will we again come down into the plant world; will we again come down into the mineral world and redeem everything that we have created? He does not claim to know - what we will do tomorrow, who knows - and when asked directly he refuses to answer from anything but experience: I could not answer that from experience, and I try to confine myself to what I know from experience. So the motif is a projection he marks as a projection, which is rare in him. The proof he offers for the pattern is the one completed case: now we have proven we can come into the world of death and overcome death. Related to M979, which holds the claim that no one goes unredeemed - that is about persons, this is about the rest of creation. PROVENANCE. Coined out of sequence at the request of the attach lane, which found the passages while attaching other motifs and reported that nothing in the catalogue held them. The canonical and the occurrences below were read in full before coining; the rest of the corpus-wide set was supplied by the lane and is attached, not read, so the occurrences here carry confidence 0.95 rather than 0.99.